Ramona Forever Quotes

“Now we lay Picky-picky down to sleep. We pray thee, Lord, his soul to keep. Thy love stay with him through the night and wake him with the morning light.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“We can't always do what we want in life," answered her father, "so we do the best we can.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Until this minute she had thought all adults were supposed to like all children. She understood by now misunderstandings were to be expected- she had had several with teachers - and often children and grown-ups did not agree, but things somehow worked out. For a grown-up to actually dislike a child and try to shame her, she was sure had to be wrong, very, very wrong.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Nothing in the world was worse than unhappy parents. Nothing. When parents were unhappy, the whole world seemed to go wrong.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“It isn't fair, Ramona told herself, even though grown-ups were always telling her life was not fair. It wasn't fair that life was not fair.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Swell, just swell,” muttered Howie. “Twenty-nine kids laughing at me in girls’ socks carrying a stupid little pillow.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“No,” said Ramona. “He’s the kind of grown-up who teases children and thinks he’s funny.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“bags and boxes across the hot parking lot to the van. On the way back to the mall, Willa Jean, who spotted the ice-cream store that sold fifty-two flavors, told her uncle she needed an ice-cream cone. Uncle Hobart agreed that ice-cream cones were needed by all. Inside the busy shop, customers had to take numbers and wait turns. Ramona, responsible for Willa Jean, who could not read, was faced with the embarrassing task of reading aloud the list of fifty-two flavors while all the customers listened. “Strawberry, German chocolate, vanilla, ginger-peachy, red-white-and-blueberry, black walnut, Mississippi mud, green bubble gum, baseball nut.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“stared at”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Here comes the bride, Fair, fat, and wide. Here comes the groom, Skinny as a broom. Here comes the usher, The old toilet-flusher.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Mrs. Quimby pushed her chair farther from the table and glanced at her watch. All eyes were on her. “Shall I call the doctor?” asked Mr. Quimby. “Please,” said Mrs. Quimby as she rose from the table, hugged Algie, and breathed, “Oo-oo.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Ramona did not know what to say. She did not feel words like darling or adorable fitted this baby.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“There was nothing more to say. Her happy plan had come to nothing.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Mrs. Quimby had heard. “Ramona, do you want to go to your room?”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“Girls, I really don’t have time to play guessing games.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“What will we bury him in?” she asked, struggling with another shovelful of wet dirt.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“and we could see how it works out.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“birthday party,”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“nothing.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever

“carpet tickling the bottoms of their feet and their nosegays”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona Forever